Country also without Internet. The rallies have been broken up and Buddhist monasteries are being occupied. And all we're doing is imposing sanctions that will only serve to hurt the country, as they're already very poor.

Satellite evidence of distress. (Yahoo! News/Associated Press)

Myanmar Crackdown (ABC News)And even though we've imposed ( Read more... )

Damn him. Damn him, damn John Yoo, damn Mitch McConnell, damn all those fucking bastards and bring on the Winter of Nations. So they've basically owned up to their own unconstitutionalities and are covering their asses just in case they get called to The Hague like Milosevic. Lovely.
Military Commissions Act of 2006"Military Commissions Act of 2006 ( Read more... )

American imperialism's desire to be a New Roman Empire?

On a completely different note, I'd love and hate to be in Quintana Roo tonight. For all my experience with tropical systems (I could name at least 15 that have made landfall around here since 1994), I've never experienced anything stronger than a Category 1, so I would like to feel and see ( Read more... )

This seems pretty hysterical. I wish I could've seen it.

Yeah, Charlie Crist is gay. Many Tallahasseeans (especially those that work downtown) have known this for a while.Sure, it's hypocritical for liberals to make a big deal about someone's sex life after they complained about Monica and Clinton. But there's a greater hypocrisy at stake that verges on being a crisis -- gay Republicans not being able to ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAYL_5E5_60
Thank you, pornotron.

To my modern Voltairine, whoever you may be,How can the violence of symbols of love appear so debasing to others, yet drench and delight us so deeply? Can concupiscence -- seemingly reduced to cinders countrywide -- be rekindled by our mutual passions enough to raze the whole of the Americas? Would the revelry and radiance we derive from our ( Read more... )

I feel paralysed, even more so than I did Wednesday despite that I have much more capability to be mobile. Even so, I still feel that my liberty of movement's grounded and I feel almost as frail and weak as Vini Reilly. Flattened, actually. It's a nauseating form of suffocation, except I can still literally breathe. Air's developed the weight of a ( Read more... )

Occupation of the Sorbonne on a small scale, some hurling objects out university windows, others stopping trains elsewhere. It's a shame they're protesting FOR labor protections, but then again they're bothering to attend these factories for careers, and I'm the sort who wants the abolition (without having to appeal to law, of course) of wage ( Read more... )

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is playing at 5:45 and 7:30 tonight at All Saints Cinema. Oh, hell yes! Who needs the Wilco concert when this is playing? I'm going to the 5:45 showing, since it will be easier for me to get home. Gah, best musical ever. Mmm, Catherine Deneuve. It may not be an uplifting film, but it's one of my favorites.

You know it's ( Read more... )